From: RadioShack. Subject: You’re Fired.

By consumerist.comAugust 31, 2006

One benefit of being fired by email is that it, at least, isn’t followed by the inhuman cackle of a Mephistophelean executive, or the suggestingslide of a .45 caliber pistol slid across the big ebony desk of your firer.

Still, small comfort for some 400 Radio Shack employees who were told by email that their positions were redundant. Employees at the Fort Worth Radio Shack headquarters received messages Tuesday morning that read, “The work force reduction notification is currently in progress. Unfortunately, your position is one that has been eliminated.”